Barriers Quote by E. O. Wilson

“Scientists can talk about human nature,but only poets can free those feelings we keep in the pent heart”

— Jeffrey Moore

“Every poet has trembled on the verge of science.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“The knowledge both of the Poet and the Man of science is pleasure; but the knowledge of the one cleaves to us as a…

— William Wordsworth

“Do the poet and scientist not work analogously? Both are willing to waste effort. To be hard on himself is one ...of the main…

— Marianne Moore

The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

A poet is the translator of the silent language of nature to the world.

— Rufus Wilmot Griswold

A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth.

— Edgar Allan Poe

The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another…

— Guy Davenport

“Poetry is a poets work in clandestine chemistry and there is no ethic other than poethics!”

— Dona Mayoora

The interpretations of science do not give us this intimate sense of objects as the interpretations of poetry give it; they appeal to a…

— Matthew Arnold

“Science…means unresting endeavor and continually progressing development toward an aim which the poetic intuition may apprehend, but the intellect can never fully grasp.”

— Max Planck

A poet's interest in craft never fades, of course.

— Mary Oliver